Where to start? And we aren’t even finished yet!
Today we said goodbye to mehusbandy and Meeka. They had to go home early to be responsible. So on the road they go for a looong drive home just the two of them.
"I'm goin' HOME!"
That leaves me with the family and the princess of the shrill bark. I think that must be the theme of this trip so far: barking.
Reactive barking, plain old, “There’s a person! HEY! There’s another person and way down there is another person!” Barking for the sake of baring.
Ah, but I could go on for days just with that.
Meeka is heavy in my thoughts today. I knew this would be a hard trip for her but I had no idea how hard. But the second day of driving she had to be helped into the truck. She is in so much pain. I called our friend the vet doubled her Tramodol dose. It seemed to ease her pain a bit.
"Do I look drugged to you?"
The hardest thing is knowing how she would like to be running around these beautiful mountains and instead seeing her sleepy from the medicine and unwilling to move much at all. A visit to the vet is in order as soon as I get home to her.
Traveling here was certainly an adventure. Meeka, Maizey and I had close quarters. But if there is a 4legged lesson in that that it’s that dogs manage to get as comfortable as they can no matter where they are. Meeka seemed to think the most comfy spot was to suspend her head on the front seat with her tail end on my lap and her front feet swinging free.
"This sure is a long drive crazydadman."
They were troopers, not complaining at all. But after about an hour of driving on day two Maizey summed it up well for the three of us.
"This wackadoo idea MUST have been my crazymomladys'!"
Then later in the day Meeka and I started with the “Are we there yet’s?”
As I have always been answered by my crazymomlady, “What did the monkey say when it’s tail got cut off by the lawn mower?”
“It won’t be long now!” (I know enter groans and eye’s rolling here, but it’s a family tradition and always does make us laugh.) Although Meeka did not like that joke too much, as her nubbin’ has never been long.
We followed two days of driving with a lot of fun packed sitting, eating yummy gourmet meals, some more sitting and relaxing, some more eating and some more sitting. Summed up well here:
"Huh? Why would you want me to move?"
So now I head back down the road with good company, though short 4legs and a mehusbandy to finish my hard work of sitting and keeping up with the turbo-maizey.
Coming soon will be a post of actual training and an update on Ricky’s challenge. But it will have to wait until I get home and we finish this hard work of relaxing!
